Re: How to set up simple cgi web

["Chris Henry" <chrishenry.ni@gmail.com>]

On Jan 26, 2008 6:33 PM, hce <webmail.hce@gmail.com> wrote:
> I thought if I create /www or /etc/www in my debian PC, and add an
> index.htm and cgi file to cgi-bin directory, I should be able to
> access http://my_ip_address/index.html. But, it did not work. how can
> I make that work?
>

Hmm. Shall start from the simplest. Did you install apache web server?
Or is this a just installed Debian (and you have no idea what was
installed). If you didn't, install it first.

$ su
# apt-get install apache2

After that you can follow the others' suggestions. (:

Good luck!
Chris